Create sections and analyze Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech by answering the following questions on the One Pager
Project. Section 1: How does Martin Luther King respond to an alternate viewpoint in his speech? Use text evidence to support your answer.
Section 2: How does the Martin Luther King’s use of language affect the tone of his speech? Explain and use text evidence to support your answer.
Section 3: Choose one paragraph of his speech to summarize. Identify the paragraph number and summarize in two complete sentences.
Section 4: What is the Theme of his speech? Identify the theme and explain why you think that is the theme using evidence from the speech.
Section 5: Martin Luther King uses repetition throughout his speech. Identify one use of repetition and explain in a complete sentence how the repetition impacts the meaning of the speech.
Section 6: How has Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech impacted our history as a nation and/or our lives today? Use a sentence or a phrase from the speech to support your answer and answer in complete sentences.
Students learn about the characteristics of an effective personal narrative and compare those to a news article. They do prewriting activities and practice writing details to show rather than tell about an experience.
